The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

October 25 - 28, 1964



Sunday, October 25, 1964

A nice day. Bill and Billie worked on the barn all day. Got a lot done. We had fried pig liver and fried onions for dinner. They all liked it so much. Kennie, Dot, Fern, Lloyd, Bob, Joy and girls called.



Monday, October 26, 1964

A nice warm day, we did our washing at the laundry and hung it out at home and it dried very good. Fern, Lloyd called. I have been very busy all day. Betty down to see about the house they want.



Tuesday, October 27, 1964 Carmen’s First Haircut

Another nice warm day. Very warm in the 50s to 60s. Done up my work, washed up all the floors. Fern, Lloyd called. Betty and I took Carmen down and had her hair cut. Well the snaps came back today. Wraps the pigs tonight, very nice-looking meat. SNAPS CAME. Bill True, Judy McAllister and Fred Wentworth called tonight.



Wednesday, October 28, 1964

A nice day, on the quite warm side. Well I didn’t get too far with my work. Betty helped me as we called Esther and talked with her. Joy came over, we talked and looked at snaps. Betty and I called at Ferns. Late and behind all day and at night supper wasn’t ready and one other thing which all caused Billie to get mad and he is still ugly and mad when he went to bed. I don’t know.

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